Denial & Misinformation Archives - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/denial-misinformation/ Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet. Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:26:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Denial & Misinformation Archives - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/denial-misinformation/ 32 32 Q&A: The League of Conservation Voters’ Take on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Voting Record: ‘Appalling’ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112023/league-conservation-voters-speaker-mike-johnson/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74936 “To call him a climate skeptic is generous,” says the league’s Tiernan Sittenfeld. “He's said outrageous things about climate change, and what's causing it, whether he believes it's happening.”

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Managing Producer Jenni Doering with Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters. 

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Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03102023/apple-claim-carbon-neutral-watch-draws-skepticism/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74254 The maker of the iPhone is a leader in efforts to reduce the climate impact of its products, but a recent claim about its new line of Apple Watches may be “climate-wash,” a Chinese environmental research organization says.

Apple’s recent announcement of its first-ever “carbon neutral” product was questioned in a new report by a Chinese environmental research organization that gathers and tracks data on greenhouse gas emissions from China’s manufacturing sector, which makes the majority of Apple products. 

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Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092023/living-on-earth-monique-harden-civil-rights-failure/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=73861 Who’s responsible for backing off—the EPA, President Joe Biden or Attorney General Merrick Garland?

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Monique Harden, director of law and policy at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice.

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Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12082023/carbon-capture-climate-101/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:30:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=73070 Fossil fuel companies’ favorite climate solution has scored tens of billions of dollars in support from the Biden administration and Congress, but many environmentalists and scientists say it is a dangerous boondoggle.

Carbon capture and storage refers to a suite of technologies that remove carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions and then compress the climate-warming gas for injection underground. The idea is not new, but has gotten lots of attention and tens of billions of dollars in funding in recent years as governments look to accelerate efforts to cut climate pollution.

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Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072023/huckabees-kids-guide-to-climate/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=72579 Producers of climate misinformation are targeting kids and families, delivering an updated message that acknowledges global warming, but minimizes the influence of human emissions.

Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up. 

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This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072023/heat-waves-attribution-climate-change/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=72560 The deadly temperatures that scorched parts of North America, Europe and Asia in early July will be common in a few decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut fast.

Widespread summer heatwaves like those currently baking the Northern Hemisphere, with temperatures soaring above 110 degrees Fahrenheit simultaneously in North America, Asia and Europe, will be common in just a few decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are immediately curtailed, an international team of scientists said Monday.

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How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20062023/daniel-ellsberg-inside-climate-news-exxon-knew/ Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:28:07 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=71949 The whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers was undaunted by the challenge of finding out what the oil industry knew about carbon emissions and global warming.

Editor’s note: David Sassoon, Inside Climate News’ founder and publisher, wrote this appreciation of Daniel Ellsberg after he died on Friday at 92. Ellsberg disclosed in March that he was suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and had just months to live.

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UN Adds New Disclosure Requirements For Upcoming COP28, Acknowledging the Toll of Corporate Lobbying https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18062023/cop28-disclosure-requirement-credbility-of-talks/ Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:55:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=71932 Watchdog groups call the change a "baby step" toward reform, while UN chief Antonio Guterres says climate action must start with the fossil fuel industry, “the polluted heart of the climate crisis.”

The final, overtime hours of the COP27 global climate talks in Egypt last year were marked by breathless huddles and cajoling in side rooms and lounges as fatigued negotiators tried to finalize a loss and damage deal and decide whether to mention a fossil fuel phase-out in the final conference documents.

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Regardless of What Mr. Bean Says, EVs Are Much Better for the Environment than Gasoline Vehicles https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062023/electric-gasoline-vehicles-rowan-atkinson/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:18:31 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=71631 An opinion piece actor Rowan Atkinson wrote for The Guardian contains some familiar and misleading criticisms of electric vehicles.

Researchers who study the emissions of electric versus gasoline vehicles have gotten used to the occasional flare-up of the idea—often framed in a misleading way—that EVs are harmful because of emissions tied to mining and manufacturing of the cars.

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Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31052023/ohio-state-college-climate-bill/ Wed, 31 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=71516 “You can say gravity isn't true, but if you step off the cliff, you’re going down,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about restrictions on teaching.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty.

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